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flourishes in great beauty and is highly valued. The Persians 
poetically imagine a peculiar symphathy between the rose and 
the nightingale. 
The Blackberry (Rubus) has a flower resembling the rose in 
general aspect ;• there are several species of the Rubus, one which 
produces the common blackberry, another the red-raspberry, 
another the black-raspberry, and another the dewberry. One spe- 
cies of the Rubus produces large and beautiful deep red flowers, 
the fruit of w'hich is dry and not eatable. % 
The Strawberry belongs to the same natural and artificial or- 
der as the Rose. The gathering of strawberries in the fields, is 
among the rural enjoyments of children, which are in after life, 
recollected with pleasure, not unfrequently mingled with melan- 
choly reflections, upon the contrast of that happy season, with 
the sorrows, with which maturer years are shaded. 
The fruit of the strawberry, as was remarked in the classifica- 
tion of fruits is not really a berry but a collection of seeds, im- 
beded in a fleshy receptacle. 
Icosandria furnishes us with a great variety of fine fruits, more 
perhaps than any other of the artificial classes. A great propor- 
tion of the genera to be found in this class, are natives of the 
United States. 
LECTURE XXXI. 
CLASS XII POLYANDRIA. 
In this class we find the stamens separate from the calyx, and 
attached to the receptacle or top of the flower stem. The number 
of stamens in this class varies from twenty to some hundreds. 
This class does not, like the one we have last examined, contain 
a great many delicious fruits, but rather abounds in poisonous 
and active vegetables. The mode of the insertion of the stamens 
is to be regarded in consideringhhe wholesome qualities of plants ; 
it is asserted that no plant with the stamens on the calyx is pois- 
onous ; we know that very many with the stamens upon the re- 
ceptacle are so. 
In the analysis of the Poppy we have already examined the 
peculiar characteristics of this class. 
Blackberry — Strawberry — Not really a berry — This class furnishes many 
kinds of fruit. — Class Polyandria — General character. 
